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1 - Reasoning - 2 - Process of Reasoning - 3 - The Concept - 4 - The Use of Concepts - 5 - Concepts and Images - 6 - Terms - 7 - Meaning of Terms - 8 - Judgments - 9 - Propositions - 10 - Immediate Reasoning - 11 - Inductive Reasoning - 12 - Reasoning by Induction - 13 - Theory and Hypotheses - 14 - Making and Testing Hypotheses - 15 - Deductive Reasoning - 16 - The Syllogism - 17 - Varieties of Syllogisms - 18 - Reasoning by Analogy - 19 - Fallacies -

but the established usage favors the term "Distribution."

The definition of the Logical term, "Distribution," is: " The distinguishing of a universal whole into its several kinds of species the employment of a term to its fullest extent the application of a term to its fullest extent, so as to include all significations or applications." A Term of a. Proposition is distributed when it is employed in its fullest sense that is to say, when it is employed so as to apply to each and every object, person or thing included under it. Thus in the proposition, "All horses are animals," the term horses is distributed; and in the proposition, "Some horses are thoroughbreds," the term horses is not distributed. Both of these examples relate to the distribution of the subject of the proposition. But the predicate of a. proposition also may or may not be distributed. For instance, in the proposition, "All horses are animals," the predicate, animals, is not distributed, that is, not used in its fullest sense, for all animals are not horses there are some animals which are not horses and, therefore, the predicate, animals, not being used in its

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